collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Recent Topics

EL R2 Feyenoord v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread by simboy
[Today at 01:55:38 PM]


Barry makes an application by Legion
[Today at 01:11:02 PM]


Ex- Villa Players still playing watch by paul_e
[Today at 12:48:14 PM]


Villa Park Redevelopment by oldhill_avfc
[Today at 12:45:57 PM]


Loanwatch 2025-26 by Drummond
[Today at 09:55:24 AM]


Other Games 2025-26 by LeeB
[Today at 09:39:19 AM]


Press-ing ever onward by VinylFever
[Today at 03:11:17 AM]


Ollie Watkins by Nelly
[Today at 01:53:39 AM]

Follow us on...

Author Topic: Classic photos from the Mail  (Read 19918 times)

Online London Villan

  • Member
  • Posts: 11054
  • Location: Brum
  • GM : 01.10.2025
Re: Classic photos from the Mail
« Reply #60 on: September 21, 2013, 05:19:23 PM »
Is that bottom picture the 1937 World Planking Championships...

Offline Mortimer's Bear

  • Member
  • Posts: 10969
  • Location: Kingsbury
  • GM : 30.05.2019
Re: Classic photos from the Mail
« Reply #61 on: September 21, 2013, 09:43:09 PM »
Is that bottom picture the 1937 World Planking Championships...

It's the 1937 squad practising their Ashley Young.

Offline Sunny Villa

  • Member
  • Posts: 410
Re: Classic photos from the Mail
« Reply #62 on: September 26, 2013, 10:28:48 PM »
Love the last one on page 11. All the Villa fans at Highbury. Amazing how many black faces are in the crown on that picture especially as the era is normally painted in a very bleak picture in terms of racism.

I don't think those lads - and one in particular - had much to worry about.

To be fair , none of the others would have either

Offline LeeB

  • Member
  • Posts: 35701
  • Location: Standing in the Klix-O-Gum queue.
  • GM : May, 2014
Re: Classic photos from the Mail
« Reply #63 on: September 30, 2013, 04:18:29 PM »
Love the last one on page 11. All the Villa fans at Highbury. Amazing how many black faces are in the crown on that picture especially as the era is normally painted in a very bleak picture in terms of racism.

I don't think those lads - and one in particular - had much to worry about.

I like the lad in between them clearly wearing eyeliner.

Offline the-farmer

  • Member
  • Posts: 216
  • Age: 57
  • Location: Warwick
  • GM : Nov, 2013
Re: Classic photos from the Mail
« Reply #64 on: November 02, 2013, 08:28:49 PM »
Cracking photos, thanks for posting, lots of memories

Dad took me to the Middlesborough game in 81 & I remember him saying to me this could be once in a life time stuff !

Grandad was a friend of Eric Houghton, he was my Aunties Godfather, my Uncle told a few tales from the 57 cup final at Dad's funeral last year, things I'd never heard before !

The Tony Daley photo against Norwich, I think it ended up 3-3, we were late & "dumped" the car, I got a parking ticket that's day  :'(

And the behind closed doors game, the copper was roughly where I used to stand as a teenager  8)

 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal